Touching Down
So much for
the lone cannon
up to its ears
in winter wheat
in the Kansas
of someone's dying
backyard. So much
for the choke
cherries sprouting
out its mouth.
Here, the dead
stay dead,
What's left is
still covered
in marrow reds.
Bags for the bags
of bodies. Shovels
more familiar
with grief
than gardens.
So much for
the anthem
loosening
in the throats
of porch cats,
yellow eyes
floating like
fireflies, sliced
moons over fields
siphoning bones
from the earth
as if there were
a milk in this world
sweet enough to last.
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Submitted on October 09, 2018
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 95 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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